How to Make Money Online in South Africa

How to Make Money Online in South Africa

There are many ways to make money in South Africa getting started even from home. This article highlights skills and businesses one can learn and start to earn money online in South Africa.

 Below are 6 ways to make money online in South Africa

1. Start a Blog

Blogging is one way to start making money online. To get started, you need to have a niche blog, where you focus on  writing about one thing, and one thing only.

Niche blogs are blogs with a one-track mind, having one purpose, one goal. Niche blogs may appeal to geographic areas, a specialty industry, ethnic or age groups, or any other particular group of people.

Your blog is your little piece of online real estate where you can write about anything that interests you and others to develop and cultivate a following that will interact & buy stuff from your blog.

 

2. Sell Stock Photos and Videos

Alongside blogging, the most primitive yet high-earning way to make money online is to sell you extra multimedia as stock photos or videos. In the age and era of Snapchat, TikTok, and Instagram, people are instant photographers or videographers. Now that we have powerful cameras on the back of our smartphones, this gig is entirely possible.

Do you want to know the secret behind selling stock photos and videos? Well, you have to be in the perspective of the buyer first. What will they buy? In what scenarios would they need a stock photo or video? If I were to buy a stock photo or video, I am going to buy the one that I can make money from. For example, I am a commercial videographer, and I forgot to shoot a scene. I will look at stock videos online that would match the missing footage. And as a stock photo or video seller, you should fulfil this missing footage. The cornerstone of highly profitable stock footage is undoubtedly the quality. So, get this one right.

Where to sell photos and videos

The best places to sell photos are Alamy, 500px, Shutterstock, Getty Images, and a lot more. On the other hand, Getty, iStock, Shutterstock, Vimeo, VideoHive, and Pond5 are the must-try for selling stock footage. Alamy – Alamy pays on a monthly basis. If your images are exclusively with Alamy, you receive 50% of direct sales. Images that are not exclusive to Alamy receive 40% of all direct sales.

 

3. Become a  Freelancer

Since the start of the pandemic, a lot of people have lost their day jobs. As a result, every country has seen a rise in the unemployment rate. And accompanied by all the lockdowns and quarantines enforced, everyone is stuck in their homes. At the same time, online freelancing jobs skyrocketed.

There are many different jobs you can do online, such as online writing jobs, working as a virtual assistant,  digital marketing, graphic designers, and many more. I recommend you try a freelancing job that you already have experience of. It will give you an edge over other freelancers. Online freelance platforms include Upwork, Fiverr, Flexjobs, Freelancer.com, and many more. Lot’s of businesses are also now looking at using a freelance service for some of their previous roles.

Your possible earnings will depend on the freelancing job, and tools needed are laptop, internet connection.

Where to find Freelance Jobs

Upwork – UpWork is one of the largest freelancing websites online and focusses on long term contracts both hourly and fixed price.

Fiverr – Fiver is another popular freelance site, they often ask freelancers to offer services in a more product oriented way with fixed prices.

 

4. Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is one way to make money online in South Africa.

Affiliate marketing could be as helping business organizations promote and selling their products or services for a certain commission.

If you’ve got an amazing fan base on Instagram, WhatsApp, Twitter, a small blog, or a popular Facebook group, you can start bringing getting bank alert if you can sell products on these platforms using any affiliate network of your choice.

To make money an affiliate, you simply have to sign up for a good affiliate program, check their offers and merchant listings, get your affiliate link, and share them with your fans, customers, friends and family.

Whenever someone buys a product via your affiliate link, you earn a commission and get paid.

The amazing beauty of affiliate marketing is that they can continue to be a source of income even after a decade as long as people continue to visit your Facebook page, WhatsApp status, Instagram handle, or blog.

 

5. Typing for Cash

6. Write and Publish an Ebook

If you have an idea for a book, this is the time for you to consider writing and publishing your first Ebook. Ebooks are so trendy right now, especially with the rise of Amazon Kindles. There are also other eBook publishing platforms aside from Amazon like Smashwords and Apple iBooks Author. Freelance writing can also help build other skills for creating content, another area which is seeing increasing demand.

Alternatively, if you do not consider yourself a creative type, you can build an eBook business instead. Hire some freelance writers online as ghostwriters to write an eBook for you. Then sell these eBooks as your own, creating a great passive source of extra income.

Where to Sell EBooks

Amazon KDP – Self publish your ebook on Amazon and earn 70% in royalties. It takes less than 5 minutes to publish your book and it can appear on Kindle stores worldwide within 24-48 hours.

 

Final Verdict on How to Make Money Online

Finding ways to make money online in South Africa can be tough. It is still the case that the amount of work and creativity you put in will have an impacts on the amounts of money that can be made. However, it is much simpler now. And there are a lot more ways to online money besides these ones listed above. Examples are online trading and make sports bets. However, these involve higher risks and may even make you lose your money. On the other hand, you may also gain higher profits. Anyway, we have listed 6 different ways on how you could make bucks online without taking any risks. I hope you found our list helpful.

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